BINHAM FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345628
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: BINHAM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BINHAM FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1345628
Date first listed:: 22-May-1969
List Entry Name:: BINHAM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BINHAM FARMHOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BINHAM FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Old Cleeve
National Grid Reference:: ST 03539 42446

Details

ST04SW OLD CLEEVE CP

1/107 Binham Farmhouse

22.5.69

GV II*

Farmhouse, originally grange of Cleeve Abbey. C15, altered C16, 1624, reroofed C19 Northern part largely rebuilt with removal of later 3 storey addition (in North-West corner). Squared and coursed blue lias, red sandstone random rubble porch, slate roof hipped left, coped verges right, brick stack right gable end and rising from eaves to right of porch. L-plan with later additions, 3 cell and cross passage lying South-North, earlier wing South West corner with site of demolished stair turret in angle, later stair turret North West. Two storeys, 1:1:2 bays; C17 ovolo moulded mullioned casement left of full height porch with coped gable and finials, renewed mullions right, one 3-light casement left and two 4-light right of 5-light oriel window corbelled out, slate roofed pentice, groundfloor two 3-light left, two 4-light right of porch, moulded arched opening probably reset with hoodmould and diamond stops, square headed moulded inner wooden door frame, ribbed and panelled inner door. Coat of arms with date 1624 set above outer entrance. Left return 4-centred arched stone door frame, spandrels and hoodmoulded, rear elevation first floor alabaster depressed Tudor arch opening to stair turret. Interior: 8 panel compartment ceiling left of cross passage, 4 panel outer room right, number of moulded peaked doorframes and depressed 4-centre arch fireplaces including one in first floor room incorporating porch room with plasterwork overmantel showinq allegorical screen with Truth and Time, and moulded plasterwork frieze. The layout of the original grange is not clear; at the time of the Dissolution it was leased to tenants. The coat of arms is that of Robert Boteler the Younger who suceeded his father in 1624 as lessee of Henry Radcliff. (VCH Somerset, Vol 5, forthcoming; VAG Report, unpublished SRO, August 1982; Photograph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST0353942446

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Legacy System number:: 264865
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in August, (1982)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.